10 Great Movie Monsters Trapped In Awful Horror Movies

One would think producers John Davis, David Giler and Walter Hill had learned their lesson after the critical and commercial disaster that was Alien Vs Predator (2004), and yet these gluttons for punishment came back with a sequel a mere three years later, scraping the very bottom of the barrel while waiting for someone to resurrect the Alien franchise.

And yet within this misguided cash grab there is a great moment of unforeseen ingenuity. Picking up where the first film left off, a chestburster hatches from a fallen Yautja (predator) warrior during the opening sequence, wreaking havoc on their ship and sending it crashing back to earth, where a new kind of beast is born.

By far the most compelling element of both films, the Predalien is a creature that combines the strength, skills, intellect and sheer determination of both creatures into one hulking, dreadlocked, scaly-tailed brute. Wreaking havoc around a town in Colorado, it goes toe to toe with humans, predators and, uhh, a nuclear bomb...

Yep, when deciding what narrative route might best serve such a creature, the writers decided to nuke it. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Predalien barely gets any solid screentime, and when it does it is mired in heavy blacks and shadows, so that by the end of the film we're not sure if we even saw it at all.

It almost justifies the existence of this achingly terrible film. Almost.